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Marshall Plan

US aid to rebuild Europe, stop communism

United Nations

Global peace organization; Human Rights declaration

NSC-68

Called for massive military buildup

Korean War

Proxy war; Korea split at 38th parallel

Containment

Stop spread of communism

More bang for the buck

Rely on nuclear weapons

Central Intelligence Agency

US spy agency

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

USSR blocked Berlin; US supplied by air

Warsaw Pact

Soviet military alliance

Formosa (Taiwan)

Nationalist China refuge

Chiang Kai-shek

Nationalist Chinese leader

Taft-Hartley Act

Restricted labor unions

House Un-American Activities Committee

Investigated communists

Alger Hiss

Accused Soviet spy

Richard M. Nixon

Anti-communist politician

Rosenbergs

Executed for atomic espionage

Red Scare

Fear of communism in US

Fidel Castro

Communist leader of Cuba

Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader after Stalin

New Frontier

JFK reform program

Berlin Wall

Barrier dividing East/West Berlin

Massive retaliation

Nuclear response strategy

Brinkmanship

Push to edge of war

Joseph Stalin

Soviet dictator

Yalta & Potsdam

WWII conferences on postwar order

Truman Doctrine

Aid to stop communism

Election of 1948

Truman’s upset victory

Mao Zedong

Chinese communist leader

George F. Kennan

Created containment theory

Domino Theory

Communism spreads country to country

NATO

US-Western military alliance

J. Edgar Hoover

FBI director, anti-communist

Molotov Plan

Soviet aid to Eastern Europe

Eisenhower Doctrine

Aid Middle East vs communism

Fair Deal

Truman domestic reforms

Executive Order 9981

Desegregated military

Hollywood 10/Blacklisting

Banned suspected communists

Whittaker Chambers

Accused Hiss

Pumpkin Papers

Evidence of spying

McCarthyism

False accusations of communism

Checkers Speech

Nixon defends himself

John F. Kennedy

Cold War president

Bay of Pigs

Failed invasion of Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis

Nuclear standoff with USSR

Panmunjom

Korean War armistice site

Suez Canal Crisis

Egypt vs Britain/France/Israel

Mutually Assured Destruction

Nuclear deterrence through total destruction

Baby Boom

Post-WWII population surge

Levittown

Mass-produced suburbs

Sputnik

First satellite (USSR)

World Bank/IMF

Global economic institutions

National Defense Education Act

Funded science/math education

GI Bill

Benefits for veterans (college, housing)

Teenager

New youth consumer group

Kerner Commission

Studied race riots

Polio Vaccine

Ended major disease

Space Program

US-USSR space race

Military-Industrial Complex

Gov + defense industry link

NASA

US space agency

Beats

Counterculture writers

The Other America

Exposed poverty in US

Interstate Highway Act 1956

Built national highways

TV culture

Mass media influence

Kitchen Debate

US vs USSR lifestyle argument

Sunbelt

Growing South/West region

Election of 1960

JFK wins using TV advantage

Executive Order 8802

Banned defense job discrimination

Dixiecrat

Pro-segregation Democrats

Brown v. Board (1954)

Ended school segregation

Title VII

Banned job discrimination

Black Panther Party

Militant Black group

Letter from Birmingham Jail

MLK defends protest

SNCC

Student civil rights group

Malcolm X

Black nationalist leader

Freedom Rides

Challenged segregation in transport

Stokely Carmichael

Promoted Black Power

Nation of Islam

Black separatist movement

Greensboro Sit-ins

Lunch counter protests

Robert Kennedy

Supported civil rights

Immigration Act 1965

Ended quotas

Democratic Convention 1968

Protests and unrest

SCLC

MLK’s organization

La Raza Unida

Latino political movement

Brown II

Ordered desegregation 'with all deliberate speed'

Rosa Parks

Sparked bus boycott

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Major protest against segregation

I Have a Dream

MLK speech

Double V Campaign

Victory abroad and at home

Civil Rights Act 1964

Banned segregation

March on Washington

Civil rights rally

Voting Rights Act 1965

Protected Black voting

De jure segregation

Legal segregation

De facto segregation

Informal segregation

Black Power

Racial pride and self-defense

CORE

Civil rights organization

Strom Thurmond

Segregationist politician

Wounded Knee

Native American protest

Earl Warren

Chief Justice (civil rights rulings)

Thurgood Marshall

First Black Supreme Court justice

Separate but Equal

Plessy doctrine